[Yulpub] Fwd: MARC records for Yale dissertations available from ProQuest

[Suzanne Lorimer]

Good news about MARC records being added to Orbis for Yale dissertations on
Dissertations and Theses Full-text.

-Sue

----- Forwarded message from youn.noh at yale.edu -----
    Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:29:03 -0400
    From: Youn Noh <youn.noh at yale.edu>
Reply-To: Youn Noh <youn.noh at yale.edu>
 Subject: MARC records for Yale dissertations available from ProQuest
      To: Suzanne Lorimer <suzanne.lorimer at yale.edu>, Andy Shimp
<andy.shimp at yale.edu>

Hi, Sue & Andy.

Good news - "Universities that actively publish dissertations and theses
with UMI Dissertation Publishing are entitled to free MARC records for
their submitted graduate works."

More information is available here:
http://il.proquest.com/products_umi/dissertations/marcrecords.shtml

I am copying Eva Bolkovac - now the main contact in Catalog and Metadata
Services for electronic resource record loads.  She should be able to
follow up on this.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Youn

At 10:18 AM 4/24/2007, Suzanne Lorimer wrote:

>Hi, Andy--
>
>Thanks so much for being willing to take my Ask!live hour this afternoon, but
>Sarah Prown will be covering it for me.
>
>Concerning your other question, I know of no plan to catalog the dissertations
>available full-text through ProQuest Dissertations, not even the Yale
>ones.  By
>this message, I'm copying Youn Noh on your question.  She may have more
>information on the possibility of this undertaking or on the possible
>availability of MARC records for them through ProQuest (though their
>website is
>glaringly silent on this topic).  Our Catalog Department has been doing full
>cataloging of Yale dissertations (i.e. those completed in the Graduate School)
>for a while now, so it may be possible to add links to the full-text to at
>least those existing records. Other records in Orbis for earlier Yale
>dissertations are minimal level records, and I don't know how likely it may be
>that links could be added to those as well.
>
>-Sue
>
>Quoting Andy Shimp <andy.shimp at yale.edu>:
>
>>Sue,
>>
>>I can do that time. Are you available for 5-6 next Monday?
>>
>>Also, I was wondering if you know of any plan to catalog dissertations
>>available in ProQuest Dissertations, or at least the Yale dissertations.
>>The reason I asked is that last week I noticed that a patron requested a
>>microfilm copy of a Yale diss. from LSF. I told the patron that it was
>>available online, but unless the patron knows about the Diss database
>>they may miss that option. Unfortunately, I imagine cataloging the full
>>text theses would be a huge task. Do you know if ProQuest has any plans
>>to offer MARC records?
>>
>>-Andy
>>
>>At 05:35 PM 4/23/2007, you wrote:
>>
>>>I find that I have an unexpected scheduling conflict tomorrow, Tuesday,
>>>April 24
>>>from 5:00-6:00.  Can anyone cover that hour in exchange for covering another
>>>hour this week or whenever?
>>>
>>>-Sue
>>>
>>>Suzanne Lorimer
>>>Coordinator of Research Services
>>>Sterling Memorial Library
>>>Yale University
>>>P.O. Box 208240
>>>New Haven, CT 06520-8240
>>>(203) 432-8371
>
>
>
>Suzanne Lorimer
>Coordinator of Research Services
>Sterling Memorial Library
>Yale University
>P.O. Box 208240
>New Haven, CT 06520-8240
>(203) 432-8371

Youn Noh
Digital Resources Catalog Librarian
Catalog and Metadata Services
Yale University Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Tel: 203-432-4526
Fax: 203-432-7231



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Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203) 432-8371